Yves Klein Quotes
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color,…
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Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.
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Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison…
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The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he…
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I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the…
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The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.
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My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My…
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As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky,…
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I have written my name on the far side of the sky.
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The dominant invades the entire picture, as it were. In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that…
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Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue…
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Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.
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Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.
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I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what…
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To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
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Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of…
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I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.
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Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.
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I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood...
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